12.09.2020 | Blog

Interest in the new Macs appears to be driven by the introduction of the new Touch Bar, which is attracting attention among early adopters who are keen to put it through its paces.

The Touch Bar replaces the function keys with an OLED MultiTouch glass bar. The bar displays contextual keyboard commands, sliders and other control graphics in response to which application you are in and what you are doing within that application. You may find quick and easy access to image editing tools in Photos or deeply nested commands when working on a Word document, for example.

There are some who argue that the Touch Bar reflects that many developers insist on hiding controls and options from view, but this has always been the case on every platform.